Teaching Resources: A Web Guide for Educators

The Internet canhelp busy educators find valuable teaching resourcesfor every aspect of teaching. Although there are many sites that claim to provide teaching resources, some are hard to find, some are quite expensive and some are just plain bad. This Teaching Resources Web Guide shows you where to find the best sites on the Web.

Looking for lesson plans, activities and printable worksheets for a particular subject? Visit our Education Web Guide to find specific guides for a wide range of subjects and grade levels.

Cyber-plagiarism has become a very serious and, unfortunately, somewhat common problem among students. Visit our Plagiarism Prevention Web Guide for resources to use with students on how to cite a source, and sites to help you detect plagiarism.

Faced with a generation of students who are growing up with the Internet, cell phones and iPods, teachers have the difficult task of keeping students engaged in school. Even the most organized educators can benefit from the quality teaching resources found online.

Some bad looking sites are full of excellent educational resources. Although findingDulcinea usually weeds out sites for especially poor design, we've made some exceptions here to help bring you as much useful information as possible.

findingEducation
is a free collaborative learning tool from findingDulcinea that helps teachers find the best online resources and share them with students and colleagues. The site serves as a meeting place for educators to share insight and outstanding links, assignments and lesson plans.

Google for Educators
is designed to help teachers use technology in the classroom. Visit "Tools for your classroom" to learn how to use some of Google's applications, and find examples of how teachers have used these applications in the classroom already.

Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher
is a list of some of the latest in Internet tools for educators. Though the site isn't pretty, it provides a thorough list of community sites, sharing sites and sites that provide tools designed to make your life easier.

TeacherXpress
is a U.K.-based site that links to some of the most popular and relevant sites for teachers. You'll find search engines, museums, newspapers, libraries and downloadable tools. Sites are ordered in each category by the level of usage they receive by users of TeacherXpress.

The Educator's Reference Desk
is a directory of everything education. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, this site provides educators with more than 2,000 lesson plans, more than 3,000 links to online education information and a useful question archive.

Curriki
is an online global learning center committed to distributing world-class education tools. Members can post learning resources on the site, and other members can download them. Browse by subject to find lesson plans and learning materials.

Multnomah County Library
in Oregon has a massive collection of helpful links to educational sites in its Homework Center. Sites are organized by topic, and each link listed has a short description to let you know where it will take you.